[ic] Rewriting URLs for SEO purposes - help!

[Sandy Thomson]

Cameron G wrote:

>Hi guys, 
>
>I'm certain I'm not the first person in the history of IC to want to do
>this, and right now I'm pulling my hair out in frustration. Here's the deal.
>
>
>We've all seen /scan/ URLs in IC, right?
>http://www.store.com/scan/st=db/co=yes/sf=prod_group/se=product_to_find, or
>whatever it needs to be for your specific search. Well, that URL is all well
>and fine, and it works perfectly, but it's terrible for search engines. What
>I'd really really like to do is be able to use
>http://www.store.com/something/product.htm, and have that as the URL
>displayed to the browser. Simple enough? 
>
>I've tried action maps. I either completely suck at action maps, or I just
>completely don't understand them. I'm not even certain action maps are
>suitable for this type of task. Next up, I tried URL rewrites - something
>I've done in the past with a fair amount of success, using them to 301 to a
>cgi-binless URL after installing mod_interchange. So, I try this: 
>
>RewriteEngine on
>#cgi-bin removing rule
>RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/store/(.*) /$1 [R=301]
>#rewrite for SEO
>RewriteRule test/(.*)\.htm$ /scan/st=db/co=yes/sf=prod_group/se=$1 [L]
>
>Which, if I were any less stupid, should work. However, it doesn't. Now, I
>understand that this isn't an apache support forum, and I'm not really
>asking for that, all I'm asking is: Surely, SURELY, someone has done this
>sort of thing before with IC? Surely someone has hidden some goopy URLs away
>from a client's browser before? I thought this stuff would be far easier
>than it's proving to be so far. Any help at all that could point me in the
>right direction would be overwhelmingly appreciated. 
>
>Regards, 
>
>Cameron
>  
>

You are not. Instead of using more lists (if you are using sql), you can
use 'offset' and 'limit' with filtered cgi variables.

http://mysite.com/browse.html?offset=2:limit=3
(go to page 2, show 30 items per page - i.e show items 61-90)

SELECT * FROM products OFFSET 60 LIMIT 30;

Sandy.